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remarkably fine. The first prize for the best four quarts of any 

 variety was awarded to Hovey & Co., for Hovey's Seedling; and 

 the second to John B. Moore, for Jucunda. For the best two 

 varieties, of four quarts each, the first prize was taken by John B. 

 Moore, for Grace and Hovey's Seedling, and the second by B. 

 G. Smith, for President Wilder and Jucunda. The first prize for 

 the best four varieties, was awarded to John B. Moore for Cham- 

 pion, Late Prolific, Wilder, and Triomphe de Gand. The first 

 prize for the best collection, was awarded to B. M. Watson, for 

 twenty-one varieties. The first prize for the best fifty berries, was 

 awarded to Warren Heustis, for Col. Cheney. 



Of new varieties and seedlings, June 28, N. B. White exhibited 

 Monarch of the West, a very large berry, but very irregular in 

 shape and coarse in its general appearance, and not ripening 

 evenly, most of the berries appearing to be ripe all but the small 

 end, which was quite green, giving it a very bad appearance. The 

 quality is not first rate, but might be called good. Augustus 

 Parker exhibited a seedling, said to be a cross between Triomphe 

 de Gand and Brighton Pine ; berry large size, color pale red, 

 qualit}^ not first rate. 



John B. Moore, presented three new seedlings ; No. 26, very 

 large size, regular in shape, and of good color ; Nos. 27 and 28, 

 not quite as large as No. 26, otherwise about the same ; the qual- 

 ity not as good as many of his other seedlings. 



July 10th, Mr. Moore exhibited his seedling, Belle, which is 

 one of the largest strawberries ever shown here, of very fine color 

 and remarkably handsome, and he was awarded a First Class Cer- 

 tificate of Merit. He also exhibited his seedling. General Sherman, 

 which has been described in previous reports, and is a very large 

 and handsome fruit. Hovey & Co. exhibited their seedling No. 

 10, or Souvenir, which was described in last year's report. 



By invitation of Mr. Moore, the Fruit Committee visited his 

 grounds on July 1st to examine his different varieties of straw- 

 berries and his manner of growing them. They found his beds in 

 perfect order and very free from weeds ; all the fruit well pro- 

 tected by clean straw, and all the different varieties kept by them- 

 selves and well marked. This visit gave the Committee an oppor- 

 tunity to judge of the productiveness of the different varieties. 

 Although Mr. Moore had picked many of his earliest kinds, we 

 noticed, among others, the following varieties, from which not 



